Evolution & Development

Objectives

• 1. Explain origin of species from both naturalism and creationism perspectives.

  2. Explain origins of phylogenetic changes from both naturalism and creationism perspectives.

  3. Explain advances in genetic analysis in the context of development and what implications there are for the perspectives of naturalism and creationism.

  4. Know what the term genome means and what it means to science to have elucidated a complete genome of a species.

  5. Understand the evolutionary implications of gene duplication

  6. Understand the significance of highly conserved genes in speciation and diversity

  7. Understand the role of stop codons in imparting new traits

  8. Explain the morphological diversity of fish jaws

  9. Understand how ancestral genes develop new functions over time

  10. Explain the evolution of the AP3 gene

  11. Understand how convergent evolution works when different genes are recruited in different species. Give an example.

  12. Describe functional analysis of genes

  13. Distinguish between the two different hypotheses regarding the expression of the Pax6 gene and the evolution of organs of sight.